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On Tuesday 04 April 2006 10:27 am, Matthew Gillen wrote: > Jerry Feldman wrote: > > Recently I've come across and problem where I have PDF documents that > > don't print on Linux. One of these was the output from Turbo Tax (Mac). > > I ended up printing them directly on Windows XP (ugh). > > > > This morning, I went to print out a document using Adobe reader 7, and > > it only printed the separator page. Here is a document that also does > > not print using acroread. > > http://claws.sylpheed.org/manual/sylpheed-claws-manual.pdf > > I tried KPDF, and print preview crashes kpdf. > > > > KGhostview and GNOME PDF viewers do work on the documents in question. > > Every once in a while I have a problem like that. I'm usually able to > work around it by converting troublesome pdfs to postscript and > vice-a-versa. See if pdf2ps gives you something that's printable. In my case, this morning, the two documents printed with GNOME PDF viewer. I assume that KGhostView is actually doing just that. I'd actually like to find the actual cause for a couple of reasons. The first being that I would prefer that acroread work, and the second is just to add to my knowledgebase for teaching my Linux course. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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